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Updated 26/5/23 The winners have been announced. Winners for the categories below are in bold.  For other categories see the ABIA website here.

The ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) shortlists have been announced.

There are heaps of categories, I’m only including Adult categories, for other categories visit their website. As usual for this award, I’ve read hardly any of them…

Winners will be announced on Thursday 25 May..

Literary Fiction Book of the Year
All That’s Left Unsaid, Tracey Lien (HarperCollins Publishers, HQ Fiction)
The Sun Walks Down, Fiona McFarlane (Allen & Unwin)
Horse, Geraldine Brooks (Hachette Australia)
Seeing Other People, Diana Reid (Hardie Grant Publishing, Ultimo Press)
Limberlost, Robbie Arnott (Text Publishing), see my review

Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
Humanity’s Moment, Joëlle Gergis (Black Inc.)
Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au (Giramondo Publishing), see my review
The Dreaming Path, Paul Callaghan (Pantera Press)
Tell Me Again, Amy Thunig (UQP)
Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Mary Laughren, Kenneth Hale, Jeannie Nungarrayi Egan, Marlurrku Paddy Patrick Jangala, Robert Hoogenraad, David Nash and Jane Simpson (Aboriginal Studies Press)

Social Impact Book of the Year
Come Together, Isaiah Firebrace, illustrated by Jaelyn Biumaiwai (Hardie Grant Publishing, Hardie Grant Explore)
How Many More Women, Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida (Allen & Unwin)
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent, Eddie Betts (Simon and Schuster Australia)
Not Now, Not Ever, Julia Gillard (Penguin Random House, Australia Vintage)
Freedom, Only Freedom, Behrouz Boochani (Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Academic (AUS))

The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
Tell Me Again, Amy Thunig (UQP)
Wake, Shelley Burr (Hachette Australia), see Sue’s review
Dirt Town, Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan Australia, Macmillan Australia)
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, Grace Tame (Pan Macmillan Australia, Macmillan Australia)
Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance, Eda Gunaydin (NewSouth Publishing, NewSouth)
All That’s Left Unsaid, Tracey Lien (HarperCollins Publishers, HQ Fiction)

General Fiction Book of the Year
Dirt Town, Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan Australia, Macmillan Australia)
The Tilt, Chris Hammer (Allen & Unwin)
Exiles, Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan Australia, Macmillan Australia)
Day’s End, Garry Disher (Text Publishing)
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson (Penguin Random House, Michael Joseph)

International Book of the Year
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell (Hachette Australia, Headline), on my TBR
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart (Pan Macmillan, Australia Picador)
The Bullet That Missed, Richard Osman (Penguin Random House, Viking UK)
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus (Penguin Random House, Doubleday UK)
Stolen Focus, Johann Hari (Bloomsbury Publishing)

General Non-fiction Book of the Year
Reasons Not to Worry, Brigid Delaney (Allen & Unwin), just picked this up from the library
The Space Between the Stars, Indira Naidoo (Murdoch Books)
Bedtime Story, Chloe Hooper (Simon & Schuster Australia, Scribner Australia), see my review
Bulldozed, Niki Savva (Scribe Publications, Scribe)
Investing with She’s on the Money, Victoria Devine (Penguin Random House, Penguin Life)

Biography Book of the Year
My Dream Time, Ash Barty (HarperCollins Publishers)
Ten Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby (Allen & Unwin)
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent, Eddie Betts (Simon & Schuster Australia)
Heartstrong, Ellidy Pullin (Hachette Australia)
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, Grace Tame (Pan Macmillan Australia, Macmillan Australia)

Congratulations to all the authors, editors and publishers!